Speaker to join Bangkok conference on hunger

Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will attend an international conference titled ‘Accelerating the End of hunger and Malnutrition’ in Thailand in November as the key speaker.Food Agriculture Organisation and the International Food Policy Research Institute will jointly arrange the conference in November 28-30.The IFPRI representatives in Bangladesh Akhter Ahmed on Monday met the speaker at her Jatiya Sangsad office and invited her to join the event.The speaker accepted the invitation and lauded the initiative to arrange such a conference, said a parliament secretariat handout.